Jake Santos
Sacred Heart (Prosper)
Painting
2026
Acrylic Ink on Wood Panel
16" x 12"
In depicting the coin, I explore formal concerns with the subject of Western history (specifically an object of the Middle Ages), as access to understanding an underlying relationship between myself and Western thought. How ideas of faith and devotion are underlying truisms of what the coin represents for myself. Further fixating on the sublime experience of viewing this object abstractly.
Work by
Jake Santos
Drawing and Painting
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